On Sat, 15 Dec 2007 14:27:16 +0000, Alan Secker wrote:

> I wanted to set mount a samba share in Mandriva 2008.0 following a clean
> install. Surprisingly there was no option.
>
> I have: 'Online Administration, Hardware, Network & Internet, System,
> Network Sharing, Local Disks, Security and Boot'. How can I now restore
> the 'Mount points' option?

The network sharing option is the one you want. Set up samba on your
system and share with a windoze system.

I don't use samba as I no longer use windows, I have set up NFS to share
my linux machines though.

Alan Secker wrote:

> I wanted to set mount a samba share in Mandriva 2008.0 following a clean
> install. Surprisingly there was no option.
>
> I have: 'Online Administration, Hardware, Network & Internet, System,
> Network Sharing, Local Disks, Security and Boot'. How can I now restore
> the 'Mount points' option?

MCC -> Network Sharing -> Share data with windows systems

(The title of that module is a bit ambiguous.)

Jim

James Kerr wrote:

> Alan Secker wrote:
>
>> I wanted to set mount a samba share in Mandriva 2008.0 following a clean
>> install. Surprisingly there was no option.
>>
>> I have: 'Online Administration, Hardware, Network & Internet, System,
>> Network Sharing, Local Disks, Security and Boot'. How can I now restore
>> the 'Mount points' option?
>
> MCC -> Network Sharing -> Share data with windows systems
>
> (The title of that module is a bit ambiguous.)
>
> Jim

Sorted. I'm not sold on the revised presentation though. Thanks


Alan

Originally Posted by James Kerr

Alan Secker wrote:

MCC -> Network Sharing -> Share data with windows systems

(The title of that module is a bit ambiguous.)

Jim

Yeah, the title is very confusing. I've just filed a bug to Mandriva in the hope they'll give it a better name in the next release.

But this module has a lot to improve. In my company where there're about 50 PC in the domain, every press on the "Search servers" button takes ages to show up what I want. I'd rather like to have a field to enter an IP address or hostname.

And at my home, pressing "Search servers" returns nothing since I've got some DNS problem there. Yeah, I know that's my problem and I need to solve it. But if it's possible to enter IP address/hostname, that problem of mine could be bypassed.

Originally Posted by James Kerr

Alan Secker wrote:

MCC -> Network Sharing -> Share data with windows systems

(The title of that module is a bit ambiguous.)

Jim

Yeah, that's very confusing. I've filed a bug to Mandriva and hope this would be changed in the next release.

This module has a lot to improve. For instance, there're more than 50 PC in my company's domain. Every press on the "Search new servers" button takes ages to response and show what I needed. I'd rather like to have a field to enter just an IP address or hostname.

Another example is my home LAN. I've got some DNS problem there that press on "Search new servers" returns nothing. Yeah, I know, I should solve my home LAN problem but if it's possible to enter IP address, that problem of mine could have been bypassed.